Employment — national citizens

In 2025, Latvia's employment increased by 0.4% compared to 2024, reaching 738k.

Latvia accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 181,552k.

Latvia ranks 22nd out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 1.8% (from 751k in 2020).

Source: Eurostat dataset lfsa_egan, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.